ITC Supports Customers During Midland Flooding
On May 19, following several days of rainfall and rising water, the Edenville and Sanford Dams in near Midland failed and breached forcing the evacuation of about 3,500 homes and 10,000 people. An evacuation order was issued including the towns of Edenville, Sanford and parts of Midland.
ITC’s MCV, Tittabawassee and Bullock substations are in the vicinity of the Tittabawassee River, downstream of the breach, but were not impacted by the flood. ITC was in close contact with our impacted customers, Consumers Energy, Dow Chemical, Corteva, Dupont, Hemlock Semiconductor, SC Johnson and GM. The breach caused flooding that impacted Corteva/Dupont’s main power generation source and thus these companies needed to rely on ITC’s Tittabawassee Substation to back feed their plants through Consumers Energy. This proved to be successful and prevented a large-scale chemical release. Thanks to the smooth implementation of ITC’s emergency contingency plans and communications, no adverse impacts were experienced by any of these customers.
Corteva had this to say about ITC’s response:
Good day,
I cannot thank ITC enough for their commitment and willingness to work with us through this flood crisis. Your operations team was professional and specifically Mr. Jason Carter was there for us to have the difficult conversations when the flood and stress was at its peak. We appreciate ITC’s willingness to understand the criticality of the power supply to the Industrial Park. Maintaining power to the site critical infrastructure allowed plants to maintain operations with key layers of protection in place which I am sure played a part in keeping people safe.
Thank you,
Brian D. Luptowski, PE
Corteva Agriscience, Midland, MI